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// Copyright (c) 1999, COAS, Oregon State University
// ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.   U.S. Government Sponsorship acknowledged.
//
// Please read the full copyright notice in the file COPYRIGHT
// in this directory.
//
// Author: Nathan Potter (ndp@oce.orst.edu)
//
//                        College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Scieneces
//                        Oregon State University
//                        104 Ocean. Admin. Bldg.
//                        Corvallis, OR 97331-5503
//
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package dods.servers.ascii;
import java.io.*;
import dods.dap.*;

/**

  */
public class asciiString extends DString implements toASCII {

    private static boolean _Debug = false;

    /** Constructs a new <code>asciiString</code>. */
    public asciiString() {
        this(null);
    }

    /**
    * Constructs a new <code>asciiString</code> with name <code>n</code>.
    * @param n the name of the variable.
    */
    public asciiString(String n) {
        super(n);
    }


    /**
    * Returns a string representation of the variables value. This
    * is really foreshadowing functionality for Server types, but
    * as it may come in useful for clients it is added here. Simple
    * types (example: DFloat32) will return a single value. DConstuctor
    * and DVector types will be flattened. DStrings and DURL's will
    * have double quotes around them.
    *
    * @param addName is a flag indicating if the variable name should
    * appear at the begining of the returned string.
    */
    public void toASCII(PrintWriter pw,
                        boolean addName,
                        String rootName,
                        boolean newLine){

        rootName = toASCIIAddRootName(pw,addName, rootName);

        if(addName)
            pw.print(", ");

        String s = getValue();


	// Get rid of null terminations on strings
        if( (s.length() > 0) && s.charAt(s.length() - 1) == ((char)0))	{ // jc mod

	    if(_Debug) System.out.println("Removing null termination from string \""+ getName() + "\".");

	    char cArray[] = s.toCharArray();
	    s = new String(cArray,0,cArray.length - 1);
	}

        pw.print("\"" + s + "\"");

        if(newLine)
        pw.print("\n");

    }



    public String toASCIIAddRootName(PrintWriter pw, boolean addName, String rootName){

        if(addName){
            rootName = toASCIIFlatName(rootName);
            pw.print(rootName);
        }
	return(rootName);

    }

    public String toASCIIFlatName(String rootName){
        String s;
        if(rootName != null){
            s = rootName +  "." + getName();
        }
        else {
            s = getName();
        }
	return(s);
    }







}